Author
Title
Synopsis
Almond, David
Skellig
Michael's world after his family move house seems lonely and frightening, when
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his new baby sister is fighting for her life in hospital. Then he discovers a creature
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in the crumbling garage and nothing is ever the same again.
Fantasy
Anholt, Laurence
Eco-wolf and the
Three Pigs
Eco-wolf is furious when three bad pigs start messing his valley vibes and building
on his peaceful countryside home, but does he have enough huff and puff to blow KS1/2
up the polluting pigs' plans?
Humour
Fairytales- Alternative
Animals- wolves, pigs
Ashley, Bernard
Jack and the
German Spy
Street smart Jack is evacuated to Kent from London where he is taken in by Lady
Ashwell and becomes involved in an adventure of espionage and black
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marketeering
World War II
Evacuees
Ashley, Chris
Wasim One-Star
Wasim spoils his chance of becoming a One-Star swimmer when he gets into
trouble at the pool. Then he finds himself in the right place at the right time when
terrible danger looms for one of his classmates.
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Familiar SettingsSwimming Pool
Banks, Lynne
Reid
Harry the
Poisonous
The story of a cowardly young centipede who only risks venturing into the
Centipede goes to dangerous no-top world when dared by his friend George
sea
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Adventure
Minibeasts
Key Stage
Familiar Settings KS1/2 (Picture Seaside
book)
Weather
Animals-cats
Mousehole Cat
Discover the Cornish tale of Mowzer the cat, and Tom the old fisherman, who
brave the wrath of the Great Storm-Cat to try and save their village.
Bawden, Nina
Carrie's War
Evacuated from London to Wales during the Second World War, Carrie and her
brother are sent to live with the very strict Mr Evans. But in trying to heal the
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breach between Mr Evans and his sister, Carrie does the worst thing she ever did
in her life.
Benjamin, Floella
When Floella Benjamin came to England from Trinidad she hadn't seen her
parents for fifteen months. When she started school she was shocked and upset
Coming to England
by the taunting and rejection she faced. She soon realized that the only way to
survive was to be twice as good as anyone else.
Barber, Antonia
Genre/Theme
KS2 (Upper)
World War II
Evacuees
Classic
Multicultural
Immigration
Autobiography
It's New Year and a magnificent carved dragon asks a little mouse to help him to
fly. Chopsticks makes his dream come true and so begins their nightime
adventures whenever there is a full moon.
KS1/2 (Picture Multicultural - China
book)
Dragons
Berkeley, Jon
Chopsticks
Booth, Martin
In 1942 Jeremy Crane is living with his grandmother while his parents are away in
the forces. Reading an official letter, he discovers that his mother is an
Midnight Saboteur
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undercover agent and is in trouble. Determined to rescue her, he makes his way
to France to rescue her from the Gestapo.
World War II
Boyce, Frank
Cottrell
Cosmic
Eleven year old Liam is big and is constantly mistaken for an adult. He pretends to
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be his father in order to join a space mission, but once in space, things start to go
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drastically wrong.
Space Flight
Humour
Boyne, John
Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Innocent Bruno goes exploring when their family move from their comfortable
home in Berlin to "Out-with" (Auschwitz) where his father is a high ranking SS
Officer. He meets Schmuel who lives on the other side of a wire fence where
people wear striped pyjamas and their friendship has disastrous consequences
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World War II
Concentration camps
Friendship
Brace, Steve
What is it like to live in an Indian village? What happens on a typical day in
Village Life in India Chembakolli? How do people farm in the Nilgiri Hills? Just some of the questions
answered in this informative book.
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Multicultural NonFiction- India
Dilly the Dinosaur
The four stories included in this text introduce the young reader to Dilly, the
world's naughtiest dinosaur
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Relationships
Dinosaurs
Humour
Breslin, Theresa
Dream Master
This novel is set in both a modern school and Ancient Egypt. Cy our hero,
discovers Amun in his wardrobe. Amun has arrived via Cy's dreams and has to
find his way back.
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Fantasy
Brown, Jeff
Flat Stanley
When a large notice-board falls on Stanley Lambchop and flattens him, it opens
up a whole new world allowing him to do all sorts of things he never thought
possible.
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Adventure
Humour
Browne, Anthony
Shape Game
Mum's birthday treat is a trip to Tate Britain and the family are not sure if they will
enjoy their visit to an art gallery. However, with the exception of Dad, everyone
has a great time discovering how much fun looking at paintings can be.
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book)
Familiar Settings Art Gallery
Browne, Anthony
Through the Magic Toby notices something wrong when he looks in the mirror and then he discovers KS1/2 (Picture Parallel Worlds
Mirror
he can walk right through it into another world but a very surreal one.
book)
(moving into) Magic
Bradman, Tony
Relationships
A brother and sister argue all the time, until one day they discover a secret tunnel - KS1/2 (Picture
Parallel Worlds
and everything changes.
book)
(moving into) Magic
A little boy sets off on a round-the-world train to dreamland with only his toy dog
Oi Get off our
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for company, But soon all kinds of endangered animals are asking if they can join
Transport
Burningham, John
Train
book)
them on their journey.
Hansel and Gretel This colourful playtale shows how to prepare and act out the exciting story of
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Play
Butterfield, Moira
(Play)
Hansel and Gretel
Little Red Riding
This colourful playtale shows how to prepare and act out the exciting story of Red
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Play
Butterfield, Moira
Hood (Play)
Riding Hood.
Puss in Boots
This colourful playtale shows how to prepare and act out the exciting story of PussKS1
Play
Butterfield, Moira
(Play)
In-Boots
Sleeping Beauty
This colourful playtale shows how to prepare and act out the exciting story of
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Play
Butterfield, Moira
(Play)
Sleeping Beauty.
After a stormy night, Percy the Park-keeper discovers that an old oak tree has
Autumn
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blown down leaving some of his animal friends homeless. Percy has to devise a
Weather
Butterworth, Nick After the Storm
book)
plan to find them new homes.
Animals
Browne, Anthony
The Tunnel
Byars, Betsy
The Midnight Fox
Tom, a town boy, is horrified when his parents tell him he is to stay on Aunt Millie's
farm while they are away. He finds country life strange and uncomfortable until he KS2 (Upper)
finds a rare black fox with green eyes, living with her cubs in the forest
Animal- Fox
Classic
Cameron, Ann
The Julian Stories
Six funny and lively tales about Julian and his little brother Huey (AfricanAmerican) and their mischievous daily lives
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Short Stories
Multicultural
Colfer, Eoin
The Legend of
Spud Murphy
Will and his brother Marty hate reading and are not amused when their parents
send them to the library during the school holidays. The librarian is rumoured to
shoot children with a spud gun if they make a noise. Is Spud Murphy really that
bad and will they change their mind about books?
KS2 (Lower)
Familiar Settings Library
Cooper, Helen
Pumpkin Soup
Cat, Squirrel and Duck always make their soup together then one day Duck falls
out with his friends and goes missing.
KS1 (Picture
book)
Ourselves:
Friendship
Food
Cross, Gillian
The Demon
Headmaster
Dinah is sent to a new foster home and starts a new school where all the pupils,
except her foster brothers, are all unnervingly well-behaved. What is the secret of KS2 (Upper)
the Headmaster's control over them and why are they afraid?
Familiar Settings School
This is the story of a young man who travelled far across the sea to fight two
terrifying monsters - one who could rip a man apart and drink his blood, the other
who lived like a sea-wolf at the bottom of a dark, blood-stained lake.
Anglo-Saxons
Monsters
Crossley-Holland,
Beowulf
Kevin
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KS3 (Picture
book)
Dahl, Roald
The BFG
Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy,
whiffling human beans. And there's only one giant who can stop them - the BFG.
He's the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets KS2
out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome
friends forever.
Fantasy
Dahl, Roald
Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the
Charlie & the
chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most KS2
Chocolate Factory
delectable eatables ever made.
Fantasy
Dahl, Roald
The Enormous
Crocodile
The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly greedy. He plans to guzzle as many
children as he can for his lunch. Luckily, he's not very clever, and the other
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animals in the jungle are determined to spoil his wicked schemes and teach him a book)
Humour
lesson.
Dahl, Roald
Fantastic Mr Fox
Boggis, Bunce & Bean are just about the nastiest three farmers you could ever
wish to meet. They hate Mr Fox and are determined to get him, and plan to catch KS2 (Lower)
him by whatever means necessary.
Animal - Fox
Dahl, Roald
Goerge's
Marvellous
Medicine
George Kranky is eight years old and wondering what sort of mischief he might
get into. George's Grandma is a grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her
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a lesson . . . And when Grandma's finished drinking George's marvellous
medicine she'll really have something to grumble about.
Fantasy
Dahl, Roald
James and the
Giant Peach
James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since his parents were eaten up
outside London Zoo. But one day a man gives him a bag of magic crocodile
tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams
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Fantasy
Dahl, Roald
The Magic Finger
The story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry she
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zaps a punishment on them with her magic finger
Fantasy
Magic
Dahl, Roald
Matilda
Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary young genius with really stupid parents.
Her headmistress, Miss Trunchball is a terrifying bully who thinks all her pupils are
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rotten little stinkers, but Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that, even
though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve.
Fantasy
Humour
Dahl, Roald
A collection of retellings of 6 classic fairytales with some surprising and hilarious
Revolting Rhymes twists. (Cinderella, Jack & the Beanstalk, Snow white, Goldilocks, Little Red
Riding Hood and The 3 Little Pigs)
KS2 (Lower)
Fairytales- Alternative
Humour
The Twits
Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard
and Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. They've kept Muggle-Wump
the monkey and his family caged in the garden for far too long, and now the
monkeys want to take their revenge.
KS2 (Lower)
Fantasy
Humour
The Princess and
the Pea
Prince Patrick wants to marry a real princess, but they're not easy to find. Still,
anything is possible with the help of a cousin, a witch and a pea.
KS1 (Upper)
Fairytales- Alternative
The Three Little
Pigs
A delightful re-telling of the favourite fairytale of how three pigs outwit the wolf.
KS1
Fairytale
Sophie and the
Albino Camel
Sophie lives in Africa with her father and finds it difficult to make friends. One day
she meets a storyteller called Gidaado and joins him and his albino camel on a
KS2 (Lower)
dangerous journey to his village.
Adventure
Multicultural- Africa
Deary, Terry
The Custard Kid
When the Custard Kid hits town, all manner of mayhem follows, especially when
he meets the hurricane with red hair known as Calamity Kate. Both are waiting for KS2 (Lower)
the stagecoach bound for Hollywood, but will either of them ever get on it?
Wild West
Deary, Terry
Simon tries to escape the dangers of life on the streets in Tudor England and
Tower of Terror
finds himself at the palace of Elizabeth I where he gets mixed up in a world of
(Horrible Histories)
treason and torture.
Deary, Terry
The War Game
A veteran soldier and a young recruit are 'celebrating' Christmas 1914 in the
trenches in Flanders. They hear the enemy sing carols and begin to shout
KS2 (Lower)
greetings across no-man's land and end up playing an international football match
World War I
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
The classic ghostly tale set in Dickensian London about Ebenezer Scrooge and
the true spirit of Christmas.
Christmas
Ghost
Classic
Dodd, Lynley
Hairy Maclary from A scruffy dog goes for a walk with a few of his friends and gets a nasty surprise. A KS1 (Picture
Donaldson's Dairy rhyming story with lots of repetition.
book)
Animal- Dogs Rhyming
Doherty, Berlie
Catherine and her family are out for a walk when a sudden storm blows up.The
children take shelter in a deserted barn. As the daylight fades, Catherine senses
Children of Winter the secrets of the surrounding hills press in upon her, secrets from another, older KS2
time, It's a time of great danger for the children as they are pulled back to the age
of the Plague and must fight to survive.
Plague
Time Travel
Doherty, Berlie
Street Child
Dahl, Roald
Davidson,
Susanna
(re-told by)
Davidson,
Susanna
(re-told by)
Davies, Stephen
After Jim's mother dies his life in victorian London is a constant struggle for
survival. His gripping adventure is based on the true story of the orphan whose
plight inspired Doctor Barnado to set up his famous children's refuge.
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KS2
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Tudors
Victorians
Doherty, Berlie
Tilly Mint and the
Dodo
Dolan, Penny
Rushing River
Donaldson, Julia
Gruffalo's Child
Donaldson, Julia
The Snail and the
Whale
Donaldson, Julia
Tyrannosaurus
Drip
Dowd, Siobhan
The London Eye
Mystery
Drummond, Allan
Willow Pattern
Story
Dye, Elizabeth
Time Traveller
Sarah Lacey
When the magical Mrs Hardcastle reappears, Tilly Mint knows she's going to have
an adventure. When the last dodo hatches out of the strange egg in Mrs
Hardcastle's basket, Tilly finds herself going back in time and dodging the hunters
and pirates with her new friend.
Erg and Luli, 2 prehistorical children, are sent to the river to fetch water for
cooking. They end up slipping in and neither can swim. (Guided Reading book Gold band 9; and reading recovery level 21).
A rhyming story about a clever little mouse and a monster. While out in the forest,
mouse invents tales of a fantastic creature called a Gruffalo to scare off his
enemies - then he meets a real Gruffalo.
KS2 (Lower)
Adventure
KS1 (Upper)
Prehistoric man
Water
KS1 (Picture
book)
Monsters
Rhyming
Animals
KS1 (Upper) Heroes
(Picture book) Journeys
Rhyming
Dinosaurs
A rhyming story about a duckbilled dinosaur's egg which ends up in a nest of
KS1 (Upper) Ourselves
Tyrannosaurus eggs. Tyrannosaurus Drip may be small and weedy but he shows
(Picture book) Heroes
himself to be clever and brave in the war between the two groups of dinosaurs.
Rhyming
Tells the story of how Ted, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome, solves the mystery of
Adventure
how his cousin, Salim, seemingly vanishes from inside a sealed pod on the
KS2 (Upper) Mystery
London Eye.
London
The willow pattern has retained it's appeal for almost 200 years,inspiring countless
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collections of blue and white china. This is one artist's version of the poignant love
Multicultural - China
book)
story that can be read in the design.
Sarah is recruited by a time traveller and finds herself trapped at the bottom of a
Time Travel
South Yorkshire mine with other half-starved children, 'trappers', when the mine
KS2 (Upper) Mining
starts flooding.
Victorians
A rhyming story about a snail who goes on an amazing journey around the world
on the tail of a whale. Can such a tiny creature save the mighty whale when
disaster happens?
Ellis, Mary
Elephant Child
Shola, an orphan kept safe by elephants, is given a home by Leo's family,until a
terrible accident shatters their lives and she and Leo are seperated, On his return
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to Africa Leo finds the elephants have fled and Shola is strangely silent. Together
the children uncover an earth-shakingly terrible crime.
Fine, Anne
The Angel of
Nitshill Road
An angel provides unexpected support for the children at Nitshill Road. A
humorous story about the difficult topic of bullying.
Fine, Anne
The Diary of a
Killer Cat
Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Who will be the next
victim through the cat-flap? Can Ellie get her pet to change his ways? Story told
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by the killer cat himself.
KS2 (Lower)
Multicultural - Africa
Animal - Elephant
Familiar SettingsSchool
Bullying
Humour
Animal- Pet cat
Foreman, Michael Seal Surfer
Foreman, Michael War Game
Commended for the S.E.N. Book award this is an enchanting story about a
disabled boy who gets into trouble with the rough seas and is saved by a baby
seal. A powerful story of friendship across generations, species and abilities
Examining the life of ordinary soldiers during World War I, this book recalls the
heroism of the young soldiers and the spirit of sympathy that grew up between the
two armies as they suffered on the front line.
Walker story plays are perfect for reading aloud. A preliminary step to reading
play scripts, they are written for four voices, with the parts clearly denoted by
different colour bands.
Walker story plays are perfect for reading aloud. A preliminary step to reading
play scripts, they are written for four voices, with the parts clearly denoted by
different colour bands.
Walker story plays are perfect for reading aloud. A preliminary step to reading
play scripts, they are written for four voices, with the parts clearly denoted by
different colour bands.
Oliver will only eat chips, so when he visits his Grandpa's vegetable plot, his
Grandpa makes a pact with him. If he can find the potatoes, he can have chips
BUT if he finds other vegetables, he must eat them.
Walker story plays are perfect for reading aloud. A preliminary step to reading
play scripts, they are written for four voices, with the parts clearly denoted by
different colour bands.
Walker story plays are perfect for reading aloud. A preliminary step to reading
play scripts, they are written for four voices, with the parts clearly denoted by
different colour bands.
Walker story plays are perfect for reading aloud. A preliminary step to reading
play scripts, they are written for four voices, with the parts clearly denoted by
different colour bands.
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book)
Disability
KS2 (Upper)
World War I
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Play
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book)
Healthy Eating
Gardening
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Play
French, Vivian
(Re-told by)
Farmer Duck
French, Vivian
(Re-told by)
The Gingerbread
Boy
French, Vivian
(Re-told by)
Jack and the
Beanstalk
French, Vivian
Oliver's
Vegetables
French, Vivian
(Re-told by)
Three Billy Goats
Gruff
French, Vivian
(Re-told by)
The Three Little
Pigs
French, Vivian
(Re-told by)
We're Going on a
Bear Hunt
Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
When Coraline ventures through a hidden door in her new house, she finds
another life with shocking similarities to her own. A surreal and haunting story.
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Fantasy
Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard
Book
Having escaped from a murderer who has killed the rest of his family, baby Bod
finds safety in a local graveyard and is raised and educated by the resident
ghosts. But the murderer is still looking for him.
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Fantasy
Ghost
Garfield, Leon
Fair's Fair
Jackson is cold and starving. He's looking forward to the steaming pie that's
payment for a long night's work. He gives half his meal away to a dog. One
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bargain soon leads to another - and some unexpected rewards. A Victorian story.
Victorians
Gavin, Jamila
Gavin, Jamila
Neetu and Sanjay have never met their unusual grandpa (Indian), they're in for a
shock, Grandpa stands on one leg,makes delicious pakoras and sleeps in a bed
Grandad Chatterji
roll. And he can see poppies when no one else can! Whatever will Grandpa
Chatterji do next
Wormholers
Gleitzman, Morris Once
Gleitzman, Morris Worm Story
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Through a crack in the kitchen floor, Natalie, Chad and Sophie are plunged into
another universe. They encounter a strange professer who shows them the infinity KS2 (Upper)
of possible worlds and gives them a chance to find where they truly belong.
A young boy escapes a convent orphanage in the mountains of Nazi occupied
Poland in search of his parents.
This is the hilarious tale of two tiny parasites, Algy the microbe, and Wilton the
worm and their very big adventure
The snow is falling thick and fast. Bess, Sam's sheepdog, is missing. She
disappeared while helping Sam's dad herd the sheep in for the evening. How will
she find her way home in such terrible weather?
Mum tries to bribe Daisy to eat her peas with promises of a baby elephant, an
extra pudding, even a chocolate factory. Now will Daisy eat her peas? An award
winner in the popular Daisy series.
KS2(Upper)/
KS3
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Multicultural
Fantasy
World War II
Holocaust
Humour
Minibeasts
KS1 (Picture
book)
Animal - Farm
Weather
KS1 (Picture
book)
Healthy Eating
Familiar Settings
Gliori, Debi
Snow Lambs
Gray, Kes
Eat Your Peas
Grindley, Sally
Joe and his family go to Kenya to see African wildlife, including a black rhino,
Danger in the Dust being re-released into the wild. During a safari into the Maasai Mara, the trip takes KS2 (Lower)
a dangerous turn and the family become stranded. A thrilling adventure story.
Hamley, Dennis
The War and
Freddy
September 1939. We see the war through three year old Freddy's eyes, watching
dogfights in the sky, playing war games and worrying whether he will get a
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meccano set for christmas.But hanging over him is the terrible knowledge that he
may never see his missing father again
World War II
Hayes, Sarah
This is the Bear
The boy, the bear and the dog are the best of friends. But one day the bear gets
lost and has to be searched for high and low.
KS1 (Picture
book)
Journeys
Toys - Bear
Rhyming
Homer
The Odyssey
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Myths and Legends
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Adventure
Spies
KS2 (Picture
book)
World War I
KS2
Sci-fi
Robots
Classic
Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker
Huggins-Cooper,
L
One Boy's War
Hughes, Ted
The Iron Man
Homer's epic tells of the adventures of Odysseus, recounting the hero's
wandereings and his eventual regaining of his kingdom. Greek mythology
After his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14 year old Alex Rider's world
is turned upside down. Forcibly recruited to MI6, Alex is armed with secret
gadgets and sent on his first mission to discover the truth about the stormbreaker
computer.
Enthusiastic 16 year old Sydney runs away to join the brave men leaving for the
Great War but life in the trenches isn't what he imagined as we discover through
his journal and letters home.
A clanking iron giant topples from a cliff and lies smashed on the rocks below.
Then his various parts begin to stir and reach out for one another. The Iron Man is
ready to walk again, and he is very hungry.
Adventure
Multicultural - Africa
Ibbotson, Eva
Journey to the
River Sea
Impey, Rose
The Get Rich
Quick Club
James, Simon
Jarman, Julia
Jarman, Julia
Jarman, Julia
Maia, orphaned at 13, is unhappy to be staying with relatives hundreds of miles up
the Amazon. She becomes friends with an English boy who lives with the locals. KS2 (Upper)
They are forced to flee upriver, pursued by an assortment of eccentric characters.
Banksy and Baxter have some brilliant ideas to get rich quick. With Sam and
Dingdong's help they set up a gerbil factory but with only 2 males their plan to
breed and sell gerbils is doomed to fail. Will their next plan to run a Happy Hair
Salon be more of a success?
Told entirely in letter form - the correspondence between a small girl called Emily
Dear Greenpeace and the conservation organisation, Greenpeace about a whale that she says lives
in her garden pond.
Topher is distraught when his cat, Ka, disappears leaving the word "tenochtitlan"
The Time
on his computer screen as a clue. Topher is horrified and has to travel back to
Travelling Cat and Aztec times where he befriends Patti, an Aztec girl doomed to be a sacrifice to the
the Aztec Sacrifice gods and has to race against the clock to save both Patti and Ka from terrible
danger.
The Time
Ka is no ordinary cat and disappears for days on end. Topher decides to follow his
Travelling Cat and
cat and finds himself in ancient Egypt with a problem - Ka is to be sacrificed and
the Egyptian
he must find a way of rescuing her.
Goddess
The Time
Topher travels back to Victorian England where he uncovers a plot to kill the man
Travelling Cat and
who improved the London sewage system. Determined to foil it, he must escape
the Great Victorian
from an arch-criminal and his den of thieves.
Stink
Adventure
Multicultural - South
America
1910
KS2 (Upper)
Humour
KS1 (Picture
book)
Letters
KS2
Aztecs
Time Travel
Explorers
Adventure
Animal- cat
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Ancient Egypt
Time Travel
Animal - cat
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Victorians
Time Travel
Animal - cat
Jarman, Julia
The Time
Topher receives a computer message from his cat Ka to say she has gone to
Travelling Cat and Roman Britain in AD79. He follows and gets involved in the search for the missing KS2
the Roman Eagle Roman standard.
Romans
Time Travel
Animals - cat
Jarman, Julia
The Time
Travelling Cat and
the Tudor
Treasure
Tudors
Time Travel
Animal - cat
Jarman, Julia
The Time
After getting caught up in a suicide bomb attack on a London bus, Topher follows
Travelling Cat and his cat Ka back to Anglo-Saxon times where he has to persuade the villagers that KS2
the Viking Terror they are going to be attacked by a fearsome Viking.
Anglo-Saxon
Time Travel
Animal - cat
Johnson, Pete
Louis' amusement at his parents' attempts to become 'cool' by trying to behave
My Parents are out like teenagers turns to embarrassment when his dad turns up at his new school
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of Control
dressed as a gangster rapper. This was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize
in 2013.
Humour
Families
Ka, the time-travelling cat has gone to Tudor England where she is in terrible
danger. Topher goes to rescue her and meets up with Doctor Dee - a magician
and astronomer to Queen Elizabeth 1, who is searching for the elusive
Philosopher's Stone.
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Jungman, Ann
Keaney, Brian
Kemp, Gene
King, Clive
King-Smith, Dick
King-Smith, Dick
King-Smith, Dick
Vlad the Drac
Vampire
Vlad, the vegetarian vampire, plunges the Stone family into total chaos when he is
taken on a sightseeing tour of London.
Set in Victorian London, this is an atmospheric, thrilling ghost story. Nathaniel and
The Haunting of
Lily try to solve a mystery and save Miss Sophie's life but need the help of
Nathaniel Wolfe
someone from beyond the grave.
Tyke Tiler and Danny Price are best friends, much to the despair of the
Turbulent Term Of
headmaster of Cricklepit Combined School because wherever the pair go, trouble
Tyke Tyler
is never far behind.
Nobody believes Barney when he says he's discovered a boy living wild in the
Stig of the Dump dump. They become great friends, learn each other's ways and embark on a
series of exciting adventures.
Max's family dream of reaching the Park. But no one has ever found a safe way of
The Hodgeheg
crossing the very busy road. Can Max really solve the problem?
When Ned finds Lady Daisy, a victorian doll who has been asleep since 1901 in
his gran's attic, he brings her up to date, and she helps him with his history
Lady Daisy
projects. But, he has to stand up for himself at school, and find out what Mr
Merryweather-Jones wants with Lady Daisy.
The Sheep Pig
KS2
Humour
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Victorian London
Mystery
Ghost
KS2
Familiar Settings School
KS2 (Upper)
Stone Age
Adventure
Classic
KS2 (Lower)
Animal - Hegehog
KS2 (Upper)
Victorians
Babe, the piglet had been won at a fair by Farmer Hogget and was surely desined
for the family freezer. But Babe was determined to herd sheep. So Fly, the sheep- KS2
dog, taught him everything she knew, hoping Farmer Hogget wouldn't notice.
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is
the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is he's innocent. Or at least sort of. The
The Diary of a
authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is
Wimpy Kid - Cabin
Kinney, Jeff
trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face
Fever
the music, but could any punishment be worse than being struck inside with your
family for the holidays?
In re-telling this familiar and well-loved tale, Jonathan Langley manages to remain
Langley, Jonathan Little Red Riding
faithful to tradition while investigating both words and pictures with wit and
Hood
(Re-told by)
exuberance.
In re-telling this familiar and well-loved tale, Jonathan Langley manages to remain
Langley, Jonathan The Three Billy
faithful to tradition while investigating both words and pictures with wit and
Goats Gruff
(Re-told by)
exuberance
It's not easy being a peasant. Jiggy's medieval life is one dirty dung heap of
trouble after another. Worse, he has to work for the dumbest Knight in the land,
Lawrence, Michael Jiggy's Magic Balls
Sir Bozo de Beurk. But when Jiggy discovers a pair of magic balls, his fortunes
might be about to change.
Arabella loves The Mammoth Academy but Oscar is having difficulty settling into
Mammoth
school and is accused of stealing oranges. Can he prove the humans are
Layton, Neal
Academy
responsible or will he get himself into more trouble?
Animal - Farm
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Humour
Diaries
KS1
Fairytales
KS1
Fairytales
KS2
Middle Ages
Humour
KS2
Pre-historic Animals
Humour
Lewis, C S
McCaughrean,
Geraldine
(Re-told by)
McCaughrean,
Geraldine
(Re-told by)
McKay, Hilary
Macdonald, Ian
Magorian,
Michelle
Mark, Jan
The Lion, the
Witch and the
Wardrobe
Lucy stumbles upon an enchanted land of fauns, centaurs, nymphs and talking
beasts, but it is not long before she finds that this is a land ruled by the cruel
White Witch.
KS2 (Upper)
Fantasy
Classic
Adventures of
Odysseus
After 10 years at war, Odysseus travels home. But his journey is full of dangers.
KS2
Myths and Legends
Jason and the
Golden Fleece
Jason sets out on his epic voyage to bring the golden fleece of Aries the ram back
KS2
to Greece
Myths and Legends
Charlie and the
Great Escape
Charlie's fed up with his family picking on him and decides to run away - all the
way to Henry's house a few doors down the road.
Two amazing sci-fi stories, told with generous helpings of excitement adventure
Eyeball Soup
and humour.
Young Willie Beech is evacuted to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the
Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the
Goodnight Mr Tom
care of old Tom Oakley but his new found happiness is shattered by a summons
from his mother back in London.
One day, on the way to school, Joe finds a key in the long grass. His friend Irrum
thinks it might be magic. But Akash laughs at Joe and makes the others laugh
The Snow Maze
too, except Irrum. Then Joe tries the key in the lonely gate and a new world
opens.
KS1/2
Families
KS2 (Upper)
Sci-Fi
KS2 (Upper)
World War II
KS1/2
Adventure
Masters, Anthony
Macbeth
(Re-told by)
An excellent introduction to Shakespeare for the younger reader.
KS2
Shakespeare
Matthews, Andrew A Midsummer
Night's Dream
(Re-told by)
An excellent introduction to Shakespeare for the younger reader.
KS2
Shakespeare
KS2
Animal - Lion
KS2 (Lower)
Families
KS1/2
Familiar Settings School
KS2 (Upper)
World War II
Morpurgo, Michael Butterfly Lion
Morpurgo, Michael Cool
Morpurgo, Michael
Cool as a
Cucumber
Morpurgo, Michael Friend or Foe
This is a moving story of a young boy who rescues an orphaned white lion cub
from the African bush. Inseparable, until Bertie has to go to boarding school and
the lion is sold to a circus, will they see one another again?
Robbie, football fan and animal lover, chases after his dog and is hit by a car. He
lies in hospital unable to speak, move or eat until, against the rules, Dad brings
Lucky to see him. Can Lucky bring Robbie back to life?
At first Peter isn't keen on his teacher's plan to dig a vegetable garden to
celebrate the Queen's jubilee. Then he starts to dig up some interesting things, a
huge worm, a big beetle, bits of china , an old coin and what looks like a giant
cucumber but turns out to be a lot more exciting!
David and Tucky are evacuated to the peace and safety of the Devon countryside.
Then a German bomber crashes. The boys feel they should hate the airmen
inside but one of them saves David's life.
Morpurgo, Michael
Kaspar Prince of
Cats
Morpurgo, Michael
Kensuke's
Kingdom
Morpurgo, Michael
Marble Crusher
and other stories
Morpurgo, Michael A Medal for Leroy
Morpurgo, Michael My Friend Walter
Morpurgo, Michael Private Peaceful
Morpurgo, Michael Red Eyes at Night
Morpurgo, Michael Running Wild
Morpurgo, Michael Shadow
Morpurgo, Michael War Horse
Johnny, a bell boy at the Savoy hotel, saves a cat and befriends an American
heiress. All three end up on the Titanic and battle to survive the sinking of the
ship.
Washed up on an island, Michael struggles to survive on his own. He can't find
food or water. In the end, he curls up to die. When he wakes, there is a plate of
food beside him and a bowl of water. He is not alone.
Meet Albert and the monstrous Marble Crusher Machine, Nick, the conker
champion, and Annie, who wants to save a barn.
Michael discovers the history of his father, a pilot with the RAF who was killed in
World War 2. A medal and photograph reveal family secrets in a story about
identity, loss and families.
Bess is told she is related to Sir Walter Raleigh and visits the Bloody Tower where
he was imprisoned only to discover the old man who told her he is Sir Walter
himself.
As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of
the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside.
But the clock is ticking and every moment Tommo spends remembering how
things used to be, means another moment closer to something which will change
his life for ever.
Millie decides to teach her show-off cousin Geraldine a lesson and tells her a
ghost story. A great story about making friends with a funny slightly spooky twist.
KS2 (Upper)
Animal - Cat
Shipwreck - Titanic
Friendship
KS2 (Upper)
Adventure
KS2
Short Stories
KS2 (Upper)
World War II
Families
KS2 (Upper)
Tudors
Ghost
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
World War I
KS1/2
Friendship
Ghost
For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia on holiday is a chance to put things
behind them and have some fun. But then the elephant Will is riding on the beach
begins acting strangely. That's when the tsunami comes crashing in, and the
KS2 (Upper)
elephant begins to run. Except that when the tsunami is gone, Will's elephant just
keeps on running.
Never has Aman needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears in
the mouth of his Afghan cave. The dog becomes a constant companion, a
shadow, and that's what Aman decides to call her. But life becomes more
KS2 (Upper)
dangerous by the moment. Eventually, Aman and Shadow find the courage to
leave. But how far can Shadow lead them? And in this terrifying world, is
anywhere really safe . . .?
The horrors of WWI, on both sides, are described by Joey, a young farm horse,
sold to the army and sent to the western front. Joey's courage touches the
soldiers around him and amongst all the fighting and desolation of the trenches
there is a story of true friendship as he searches for his original owner, Albert,
who had vowed to come and find him no matter what.
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Adventure
Animal - Elephant
Adventure
Afghan Refugees
Animal - Dog
World War I
Morpurgo, Michael
Wreck of the
Zanzibar
Set in the Scilly Isles and told in diary format, the story is about Laura Perryman
and her life on the island of Bryner, the daily hardships and the threat of
starvation, but also the unexpected bounty that shipwrecks bring to the islanders.
Mould, Chris
Fangs 'n' Fire
By local author & illustrator, this is a collection of 10 traditional and original dragon
KS2 (Upper)
tales, including 'George and the Dragon'.
Murphy, Jill
Peace at Last
Murphy, Jill
Worst Witch
Murphy, Jill
Worst Witch and
the Wishing Star
Mr Bear is tired and goes to bed - but can he get to sleep? Snore, snore went Mrs
Bear, tick-tock, tick-tock went the clock. Mr Bear desperately tries to get some
sleep, around the house, in the garden and even in the car.
Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy and she's making a
mess of it. She's always getting her spells wrong and can't ride a broomstick
without crashing it. Will she ever make a real witch?
Winter Term starts surprisingly well for accident-prone Mildred Hubble - the worst
witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. But when she wishes on a shooting
star everything begins to go wrong, and Mildred's secret wish lands her in the
deepest trouble she's ever known.
KS2
KS1 (Picture
book)
Adventure
Diaries
Fantasy
Myths & Legends
Short Stories
Familiar Settings Home
Bears
KS2 (Lower)
Witches
School
KS2 (Lower)
Witches
School
Humour
KS2
Fantasy
Magic
Murtagh, Ciaran
Genie in Training
Jamie's 'doolally' Gran gives him a battered old teapot for his birthday which he
discovers contains a banished genie who grants him 3 wishes. He accidentally
wishes to become a genie and so begins his adventure at genie school.
Nabb, Magdalen
The Enchanted
Horse
It's Christmas, but Irina's family don't have enough money to buy her the present
she wants. Then she sees the wooden horse in the junk shop window and all she KS2 (Lower)
wants is to take it home with her, but the little horse is an enchanted horse.
Fantasy
Naidoo, Beverley
Journey To
Jo'Burg
Frightened that their baby sister will die, 13 year old Naledi and her younger
brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their
mother, who works there as a maid. An inspirational story set against the
dangerous landscape of apartheid in South Africa
Multicultural - South
Africa
A Monster Calls
13 year-old Conor is awoken by a monster wanting him to admit the truth. He isn't
KS2 (Upper)/
scared as he's had more to worry about since his mother started her cancer
KS3
treatment. A deeply moving story about loss, hope and letting go.
Ness, Patrick
Nimmo, Jenny
Charlie Bone and
the Time Twister
Norris, Andrew
I Don't Believe It,
Archie!
KS2
Charlie hoped the new term at Bloor's academy would hold no nasty surprises.
But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of
KS2 (Upper)
1916. With malicious Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, and the Bloors out to catch
him, Henry will need Charlie's help just to stay alive.
On Monday Archie goes out to post a letter and a piano rolls down the hill and
traps his friend Cyd in her mum's car. Then a lorry tips a load of gravel on top of it.
KS2 (Lower)
More unbelievable and outrageous things happen to Archie throughout the week
but are these funny escapades really his fault?
Relationships
Monsters
Loss
Fantasy
Magic
Humour
Short Stories
This famous poem tells the story of the highwayman and his doomed love for
Bess, the landlord's black-eyed daughter.
This book carries you back thousands of years to the ancient darkness of the
forest, to a world steeped in natural magic and elemental terror, a world in which
trusting a friend means risking your life.
Thirteen! proclaimed the clock and then stopped striking. Tom's mind gave a jerk:
had it really struck thirteen? For Tom, it brings an escape to another time and a
magical secret place.
Joseph enjoys secretly spending time with a family of lions. Then traders come
looking for cubs and Joseph is horrified when he suspects his own father of
betraying his new-found friends.
The Year is 1465BC and Nakht's family is moving from their village to Memphis.
Alongside him, we explore life in the bustling Egyptian city. Their adventure
includes a tomb robbery and a meeting with the king of Egypt.
Noyes, Alfred
The Highwayman
Paver, Michelle
Wolf Brother
Pearce, Philippa
Tom's Midnight
Garden
Pitcher, Caroline
The Time of the
Lion
Platt, Richard
Egyptian Diary :
The Journal Of
Nakht
Pullman, Philip
Clockwork
A tormented apprentice clockmaker - and a deadly knight in armour, a mechanical
KS2 (Upper)
prince - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil
Fantasy
Krindlekrax
Ruskin Splinter is small and thin. The idea of him battling a dragon in the school
play makes the whole class laugh. When Krindlekrax threatens Lizard Street,
Ruskin has a chance to prove he really is the stuff heroes are made of!
Supernatural
Adventure
Ridley, Philip
Roberts, Lynn
Rosen, Michael
Rosen, Michael
Rosen, Michael
Rowling, J.K.
Rowling, J.K.
Little Red
Mind Your Own
Business
Mustard, Custard,
Grumble Belly and
Gravy
We're Going on a
Bear Hunt
Harry Potter and
the Chamber of
Secrets
Harry Potter and
the Philosopher's
Stone
Little Red strays from the path leading through the wood to his grandmother's
cottage. A greedy wolf steals his red coat and rushes off to gobble up grandma
and wait for Little Red. But, can a keg of beer save him? A retelling of the classic
tale set in C18th England.
As with all Rosen's work, the most important message is that reading and writing
are creative, enabling, fun activities.
Funny, moving and questioning poems from a child's viewpoint with wonderful
illustrations by Quentin Blake. CDs in some copies
KS2 (Upper)
Poetry
KS2 (Upper)
Fantasy
Victorians
KS2 (Upper) Ghosts
Classic
Multicultural - East
KS1/2 (Picture
Africa
book)
Animal - Lion
KS2 (Upper) Ancient Egypt
(Picture book) Diaries
KS2
KS1/2 (Picture Fairytales - Alternative
book)
Animal - Wolf
KS2 (Upper)
Poetry
KS1/2
Poetry
A cumalative adventure story about a family's brave hunt to find a bear. It could be KS1 (Picture
a frightening journey but they're not scared. A classic.
book)
Journeys
Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts school. Little does he know that this
KS2 (Upper)
year will be just as eventful as the last.
Fantasy
Magic
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy until he is rescued by a giant of a man,
enrols at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, learns to play quidditch and
does battle in a deadly duel. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard.
Fantasy
Magic
KS2 (Upper)
Sachar, Louis
Holes
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a
miscarriage of justice sends him to a boy's juvenile detention centre. This is a
story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions.
The True Story Of
The Three Little
A inventive retelling of a popular story told entirely from the wolf's point of view.
Pigs
It is 1910 near the Arctic Circle and Sig sits alone with his father's frozen body
while his sister and stepmother go for help. Then a stranger, with a gun, turns up
demanding the gold he says he was cheated out of by Sig's father and when his
Sedgwick, Marcus Revolver
sister returns alone Sig's thoughts turn to his father's prized possession - a
revolver.
Written in letter format Rosie complains about her stay in camp, the food is yukky,
Wish You Were
it never stops raining, Danny Fisher is a pain. Rosie would rather be at home.
Selway, Martina
Here
Until the sun begins to shine, camping turns out to be a real adventure and soon
Rosie's writing home with different views.
Max is mischievous and gets sent to bed without any supper. Then begins his
Where The Wild
night-time adventure in the land of the Wild Things. A Twentieth Century classic
Sendak, Maurice
Things Are
tale showing the power of a child's imagination.
The night the Nazis come to take their mother away, three children escape in a
The Silver Sword terrifying scramble across the rooftops. Alone in the chaos of Warsaw, they have
Serraillier, Ian
to learn to survive on their own.
Horrid Henry and
4 short Horrid Henry stories, including Rainy Day, Author Visit, and Moody
Simon, Francesca the Abominable
Margaret's makeover.
Snowman
Scieszka, Jon
Simon, Francesca
Horrid Henry's
Revenge
Horrid Henry
Simon, Francesca Tricks the Tooth
Fairy
Horrid Henry is messy, naughty, cheeky and always in some kind of trouble. 4
hilarious adventures including his encounter with "The Demon Dinner Lady".
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
Adventure
KS1/2
Fairytales - Alternative
KS3
Thriller
Arctic
KS1 (Picture
book)
Letters
School
Holiday
KS1 (Picture
book)
Monsters
Imagination
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
World War II
Journeys
Classic
KS1/2
Humour
Short Stories
KS1/2
Humour
Short Stories
Four stories about Horrid Henry in which he tries to trick the tooth fairy, has
moody Margaret to stay and sends her packing, makes teachers run screaming
KS1/2
from school and wrecks a wedding.
Jen, Ned and Billy find themselves homeless and with no family to look after them
in Victorian London. They are put into a workhouse and the only means of escape KS2 (Upper)
is through the stinky sewers.
Humour
Short Stories
Sivers, Bowering
Jammy Dodgers
Go Underground
Smiley, Sophie
Snow Goalie
Charlie and her brothers fight their way to the final of a football tournament. Then
a storm threatens to disrupt the match and Bobby is marooned in the snow. Will
KS1/2
Charlie be able to re-unite the team and will the match go ahead?
Adventure
Stanton, Andy
Mr Gum and the
Biscuit Billionaire
A weird and wacky tale featuring nasty Mr gum, billionaire, a gingerbread man
named AlanTaylor who has electric muscles, an angry fairy who lives in Mr Gum's KS2
bath tub and other crazy characters.
Humour
Victorians
KS2 (Picture
book)
Multicultural - Africa
KS2 (Lower)
Multicultural - China
Dragons
KS2 (Lower)
Adventure
Pirates
KS2
Humour
Animal - Pet dog
KS2 (Lower)
Humour
Aliens
KS2
Humour
Animal - Pet dog
KS2 (Upper)
World War II
Adventure
Mines
KS2 (Lower)
Adventure
KS2
Spooky
Swindells, Robert
Room 13 and
Inside the Worm
Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm that once
terrorised the village, but when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the
KS2
legend for the village Festival, something very sinister begins to happen.
Spooky
Tennyson, Alfred
Lord
Lady Of Shallott
Keeping's evocative pictures tell the story of the lovely maiden, embowered on her KS2 (Upper)
silent isle, grieving with love for the bold Sir Lancelot.
(JP)
Poetry
Steptoe, John
Mufaro's Beautiful An African Cinderella story. Mufaro's beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered and
Daughters
the other kind and sweet, go before the king who is choosing a wife.
The wind rips Chang's wonderful dragon kite from his hands and up into the
mountains. Chang follows and ends up deep in a volcano and comes face to face
Steven, Kenneth The Dragon Kite
with a dragon from old stories. Provides information about dragons and the
Chinese New Year.
Stevenson, Robert
Join cabin boy Jim Hawkins aboard the Hispaniola and set sail for Treasure
Louis
(ReIsland. With a horde of fierce crewmates, Jim embarks on a thrilling adventure in
Treasure Island
search of Captain Flint's buried gold.But danger lies ahead. An adaptation of the
told by Ronnie
classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Randall)
Trevor and his best friend Tina find themselves in lots of trouble whilst attempting
The Hundred-Mile- to train Streaker, a rocket on four legs with with a woof attached. But if Trevor
Strong, Jeremy
An-Hour-Dog
fails, his parents will get rid of her at the end of the holidays and he'll also lose his
bet with horrible Charlie Smugg.
Rob worries a lot, he even worries about not worrying. Now Rob is convinced that
I'm Telling You
aliens have moved in over the road and he has to stop them from taking over the
Strong, Jeremy
They're Aliens!
world.
Streaker the dog is lost. She wanted to protect some pies from the pie robber and
Lost! The Hundredshe's miles from home and two-legged Trevor and she has to make friends with a
Strong, Jeremy
Mile An Hour Dog
cat. Then they come face-to-face with a baboon.
During WWII four children uncover a plot to steal the Golfodd hoard of ancient
gold coins and try to save them from the thieves. However, the bottom of the old
Swindells, Robert Blackout
rotten mines of Golfodd may not be the safest place for either the coins or the
children.
No one sees Starjik and his hungry wolves when they come in the dead of night,
but always a child is missing in the morning. Who can rid the land of this curse
Swindells, Robert Ice Palace
and melt the fear in its people's hearts?
This spooky tale about a vampire takes place at the Crow's Nest Hotel, where
Room
13
Fliss and her friends are staying. They think that there's no room 13, but they're
Swindells, Robert
not sure.
Tomlinson,
Theresa
Tomlinson,
Theresa
Tomlinson,
Theresa
Trivias, Eugene
Turnbull, Ann
Turnbull, Ann
Waddell, Martin
Waddell, Martin
Walker, Richard
(Re-told by)
Wallace Karen
Wallace Karen
Walliams, David
Walliams, David
Thirteen year old Dory Lythe has always been fascinated by the group of Scottish
girls who arrive every year in Whitby to sort out the fish, then due to a family crisis
The Herring Girls she is forced to work with them. Dory is faced with the trauma of leaving home
and the hostilities of the other girls. But has she got what it takes to be a real
herring girl?
Plop the baby barn owl is like every other barn owl, except he is afraid of the dark.
The Owl Who Was
His mother sends him out to ask about the dark and he meets many different
Afraid of the Dark
people, each with their own reason for enjoying the dark.
Plop the baby barn owl is like every other barn owl, except he is afraid of the dark.
The Owl Who Was
His mother sends him out to ask about the dark and he meets many different
Afraid of the Dark
people, each with their own reason for enjoying the dark.
The Three Little
It was time for the three little wolves to go out into the world so they set off and
Wolves and the
built themselves a splendid brick house. But they hadn't reckoned on the big bad
Big Bad Pig
pig coming along. Another alternative tale to the original story.
After surviving the Great Plague and finding a job as a servant to the Giraud
family, Sam faces another disaster. He finds himself in London when the fire
The Great Fire: A
starts on Pudding Lane and to make things worse he is trapped with his old
City in Flames
enemy and employer's son André. Can Sam and André put aside their mutual
hostility and escape the terrifying blaze?
It's 1665 and Sam, a young servant, finds himself alone when the plague kills his
Plague: A Cross
master. Can he escape the dangerous disease-ridden streets of London and find
on the Door
a new life?
On a tree in the woods, 3 baby owls sit and think waiting for their owl mother to
Owl Babies
return. A charming book with a reassuring ending
Mum isn't the only one with a baby - four year old Rosie has two of her own! One
Rosie's Babies
is a cuddly bear and the other is a rabbit toy. Rosie loves her babies, but she
really wants her mum's attention.
Jack and the
A retelling of a classic with a CD
Beanstalk
The jungle animals arrange a surprise birthday party for their friend Flora the
Happy Birthday
elephant but Monty the monkey decides to trick her into believing he's forgotten all
Flora!
about her special day.
A play with humorous twists about Princess PJ, who is not pleased when Princess
A Proper Princess Tiara visits the royal household, as she is sure they will not have anything in
common.
Joe Spud, the richest 12 year old in the world, has everything he could ever want Billionaire Boy
except friends.
The Boy in the
Dress
Dennis likes football, the gorgeous Lisa and fashion. He designs dresses and
would love to wear them, but boys can't do that even if they feel different.
KS2 (Upper)
Victorians
KS1/2
Animal - Owls
Feelings
KS1 (Picture
book)
Animal - Owls
Feelings
KS1
Fairytales - Alternative
Animal - wolf, pigs
KS2
Stuarts -17th century
Adventure
KS2
Plague - 17th century
Adventure
KS1 (Picture
book)
Animal - Owls
Feelings
KS1 (Picture
book)
Families
KS1 (Upper)
KS1
Fairytales - Alternative
Growth
Play
Celebrations
Animal - Jungle
KS1
Play
Royalty
KS2 (Upper)
Humour
KS2 (Upper)
Humour
Walliams, David
Gangsta Granny
Walliams, David
Mr Stink
Walliams, David
Ratburger
Walsh, Jill Paton
Thomas and the
Tinners
Westall, Robert
Machine Gunners
White, E B
Charlotte's Web
Tuesday
Wiesner, David
Williams, Marcia
Williams, Marcia
Willis, Jeanne
Wilson,
Jacqueline
King Arthur and
the Knights of the
Round Table
Mr William
Shakespeare's
Plays
Ben stays with his boring Granny most Friday nights, eating cabbage, playing
scrabble and listening to babyish bedtime stories. Then he discovers she's an
international jewel thief and the adventures begin
Shortlisted for several awards, this is a funny Dahlesque story about the
relationship between a lonely young girl called Chloe and a smelly old tramp
whom she befriends and hides in the garden shed. Chloe discovers there is more
to Mr Stink than meets the eye . . . or nose!
Zoe's life is miserable because of her horrible stepmother and Tina, the school
bully. Zoe finally takes action when burger van owner, Burt, threatens Armitage,
Zoe's secret pet rat.
Thomas found the mine hard work, and the only rest was at croust-time when he
sat with the men on the benches and unwrapped his pasty, until Thomas heard a
faint little voice crying for food. Looking down, he set eyes on the most
extraordinary sight . . .
Living in WW2 Britain, Chas is determined to outdo Boddser Brown in obtaining
the ultimate war souvenir. When he finds a crashed German bomber complete
with machine gun, he knows he can not only beat Boddser, but can also play a
role in the war.
KS2 (Upper)
Humour
KS2 (Upper)
Humour
KS2 (Upper)
Humour
Animal - Pet rat
KS2 (Lower)
Mining - Tin
Magic
KS2 (Upper)/
KS3
World War II
The story of a little girl called Fern who loves Wilbur the pig, and how Charlotte A
Cavatica, a beautiful spider, saves Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat pigs.
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Animal - farm, spider
Classic
On Tuesday, just as the full moon is rising, frogs rise on their lilypads, float
through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep. A
surreal visual story
KS1/2
Fantasy
A retelling of a classic story featuring the heroic deeds of King Arthur and the
knights of the round table. A graphic novel.
KS2
Myths and Legends
Graphic
A selection of plays brought to life in a comic-strip version which include the bard's
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own dialogue and the rowdy remarks of the audience!
Tadpole loves his friend, the caterpillar, and she loves him too.'Promise that you
will never change,' she says, but as the seasons pass he matures, and what has
Tadpole's Promise
KS1
happened to his friend? As he sits on his lily pad digesting the butterfly he has just
eaten, he little realizes he will never know!
Hetty Feather
Hetty is clever but headstrong and often feels frustrated and asks questions. Due
to this, as punishment, she is locked up in a dark tower room with little food. She
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also runs away to find the circus lady she thinks is her real mother. She is told the
truth and again runs off to try to survive on the streets.
Shakespeare
Animal Life-cycles tadpole, caterpillar
Victorians
The Longest
Whale Song
Ella is feeling painfully alone. Her best friend has gone off with someone else. Her
stepdad is tired and grumpy. The new baby screams his head off. And worst of all,
her mum is in a coma in hospital unable to touch or talk to anyone. A new school
project seems a real bore, but the more Ella discovers about whales, the more
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she becomes enchanted by them. Whales can sing for hours, calling out their love
to each other underwater. Could whale song reach Mum in her otherwise silent
world?
Families
Relationships
Wilson,
Jacqueline
Queenie
It's 1953, the year Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England. Elsie Kettle can't wait
to go to London with her Nan to see the celebrations on Coronation day. Elsie
lives with her Nan, her Mum works as a showgirl, so she's not around very often.
Then tragedy strikes. Nan and Elsie both fall ill, and Elsie finds herself whisked
away to the children's ward of the nearby hospital.
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Families
1950s
Wilson,
Jacqueline
Suitcase Kid
Meet ten year old Andy and share her experiences of life after divorce.
KS2
Families
Relationships
Wojciechowski,
Susan
The widow McDowell asks Jonathan Toomey to carve nativity figures as a
The Christmas
Christmas present for her son Thomas. The woodcarver, bad-tempered since the KS1/2 (Picture
Miracle of
Christmas
death of his wife and baby many years ago, reluctantly agrees. As Thomas
book)
Jonathan Toomey
watches him work, a miracle occurs to warm his cold heart.
Wilson,
Jacqueline